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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"If there's no autposy, you'll know I was murdered!" WOW! Er...what's an "autposy?"
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"If there's no autposy, you'll know I was murdered!" WOW! Er...what's an "autposy?" (Original Post)
Miles Archer
Feb 2016
OP
An image of you in the casket with your dead hands holding a flower arrangement? n/t
Yo_Mama
Feb 2016
#11
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)1. LOL. I sure hope the family will be persuaded to
allow an official inquest. It wouldn't put the nuts in the can, of course, but it would limit the damage they can do.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)2. Maybe he meant an autistic flower.
IDemo
(16,926 posts)3. A difficult yoga move?
liberal N proud
(60,344 posts)4. Is the Moran guy creating signs again?
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)5. Yeh - what's an "autposy"? nt
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)6. ? Are these his last words?
Maybe he should have taken a No-Doz and stayed awake all night.
TexasProgresive
(12,158 posts)7. I believe the law of Texas was circumvented
Not having an autopsy leaves the field wide open to a lot of claptrap. It is not the will of the family to prevent the state from performing an autopsy in unattended and unexpected death.
CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
TITLE 1. CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
CHAPTER 49. INQUESTS UPON DEAD BODIES
SUBCHAPTER A. DUTIES PERFORMED BY JUSTICES OF THE PEACE
Art. 49.03. POWERS AND DUTIES. The powers granted and duties imposed on a justice of the peace under this article are independent of the powers and duties of a law enforcement agency investigating a death.
Amended by Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 529, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1987.
Art. 49.04. DEATHS REQUIRING AN INQUEST. (a) A justice of the peace shall conduct an inquest into the death of a person who dies in the county served by the justice if:
(1) the person dies in prison under circumstances other than those described by Section 501.055(b), Government Code, or in jail;
(2) the person dies an unnatural death from a cause other than a legal execution;
(3) the body or a body part of a person is found, the cause or circumstances of death are unknown, and:
(A) the person is identified; or
(B) the person is unidentified;
(4) the circumstances of the death indicate that the death may have been caused by unlawful means;
(5) the person commits suicide or the circumstances of the death indicate that the death may have been caused by suicide;
(6) the person dies without having been attended by a physician;
(7) the person dies while attended by a physician who is unable to certify the cause of death and who requests the justice of the peace to conduct an inquest; or
(8) the person is a child younger than six years of age and an inquest is required by Chapter 264, Family Code.
(b) Except as provided by Subsection (c) of this section, a physician who attends the death of a person and who is unable to certify the cause of death shall report the death to the justice of the peace of the precinct where the death occurred and request that the justice conduct an inquest.
http://www.statutes.legis.state.tx.us/Docs/CR/htm/CR.49.htm
Zen Democrat
(5,901 posts)8. What's an "autposy?"
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)9. The misspelled name of a James Bond villain?
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)12. Well played Mr. Goldfinger, well played. nt
malaise
(269,157 posts)10. Get A Brains Morans
Yo_Mama
(8,303 posts)11. An image of you in the casket with your dead hands holding a flower arrangement? n/t
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)13. Yup, why should an obese 79 year-old man
have a massive, fatal heart attack? That NEVER happens, right?
spanone
(135,871 posts)14. because 79 year old overweight men just NEVER die of heart attacks